Sonny Crockett

James "Sonny" Crockett (1949-) was an undercover police detective who worked with Rico Tubbs in Miami, Florida from 1984 to 1989, taking down many criminals in the drug-infested city.

Biography
James Crockett was born in 1949 in Florida, and he attended the University of Florida, where he played football with the Gators. However, he suffered an injury that put an end to his sports career, and he was later drafted into the US Marine Corps to fight in the Vietnam War for two tours. After leaving the military, he began to work for the police as an undercover detective, and he had to fight against the Miami drug trade with his partner Eddie Rivera and then Rico Tubbs after Rivera's death in September 1984. Crockett lived on a sailing yacht in the Miamarina harbor of Miami with a pet alligator, and he played by his own set of rules, often disappointing his superiors. Crockett and Tubbs took down several criminals, but they realized that they could not take down all of the drug cartels and crooks, and they quit the force in 1989, by which point Crockett had began to lose his memory after suffering traumatic experiences (such as the loss of his wife and several colleagues).